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The Emerald Swan
Dear Reader,My new story begins on a terror-filled night when two babies-identical twin girls of noble birth-are separated. One grows to womanhood as the frail, manipulative ward of the handsome young earl of Harcourt. The other becomes an enchanting, street-smart urchin who earns her way as a traveling player on the streets of England and France.The two girls' paths might never again have crossed if Harcourt hadn't run into Miranda in the midst of an exuberant performance. The resemblance to his ward is unmistakable-uncanny, in fact...and an ambitious plot begins to take shape in Harcourt's mind.His ward, Maude, will commit herself to a convent rather than marry the love-struck king of France, who will soon be traveling to London to claim her. What if Miranda were to take Maude's place? Harcourt is confident that with the right training, the right clothes, and the right attitude, the lithe, carefree Miranda will captivate society-and the king.So begins Harcourt's breathtaking scheme to turn an ugly duckling into a gorgeous swan. But if he succeeds too well, Miranda may become something irresistible-even to Harcourt....It's a delicious dilemma and a dangerous deception...and the twists and turns surprised even me.
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Till Next We Meet
In a departure from her nationally bestselling Highland Lord series, Karen Ranney brings us another emotionally intense and passionate story that will speak to her fans.When Adam Moncrief, Colonel of the Highland Scots Fusiliers, agrees to write a letter to Catherine Dunnan, one of his officers' wives, a forbidden correspondence develops and he soon becomes fascinated with her even though Catherine thinks the letters come from her husband, Harry Dunnan. Although Adam stops writing after Harry is killed, a year after his last letter he still can't forget her.Then when he unexpectedly inherits the title of the Duke of Lymond, Adam decides the timing is perfect to pay a visit to the now single and available Catherine.What he finds, however, is not the charming, spunky woman he knew from her letters, but a woman stricken by grief, drugged by laudanum and in fear for her life. In order to protect her, Adam marries Catherine, hoping that despite her seemingly fragile state, he will once again discover the woman he fell in love with.
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An Ordinary Woman
When Rose was 4, she left America with her mother and returned to England. The following May, her half sister was born, who as she got older would race from disaster to disaster. Rose, in her quiet way, salvaged the family, held them together, and pasted over the cracks of tragedy and emotional upheavals, while at the same time fighting her own personal crises.
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An Indecent Obsession
To the battle-broken soldiers In her care, nurseHonour Langtry is a precious, adored reminder of theworld before war. Then Michael Wilson arrives under acloud of mystery and shame to change everything. Adamaged and decorated hero, a man of secrets andsilent pain, soon he alone possesses Honour's selflessheart -- inciting tense and volatile passions that canonly lead to jealousy, violence, and death.
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No. 1
One minute Mia's totally normal. Next minute she's heir to the throne of Genovia. Well, her dad can lecture her until he's royal-blue in the face, but no way is Mia going to behave like some posh princess. And they think she's moving to Genovia? Er, hello?
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The Soldier Spies
Winter, 1942. Two Americans in the just-born Office of Strategic Services take on their most important assignment during World War II. Running a spy pipeline into Germany is "Major" Richard Canidy; going in is Second Lieutenant Eric Fulmar -- friends as well as comrades-in-arms. Their mission is so covert that even they aren't aware of its ultimate goal: to extract -- or eliminate -- those Germans with the expertise to develop the atomic bomb...
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The Short Stories
At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, Up in Michigan. Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. The Short Stories, introduced here with a revealing preface by the author, chronicles Hemingway's development as a writer, from his earliest attempts in the chapbook Three Stories and Ten Poems, published in Paris in 1923, to his more mature accomplishments in Winner Take Nothing. Originally published in 1938 along with The Fifth Column, this collection premiered The Capital of the World and Old Man at the Bridge, which derive from Hemingway's experiences in Spain, as well as The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which figure among the finest of Hemingway's short fictions.
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Grand Jury
FASCINATING . . . A NEAR-EPIC STORY. *Chicago TribuneThe New York police seize more than a million dollars tainted with heroin powder, implicating two elderly and distinguished Chinatown residents. Their case is rushed before the grand jury."INTRIGUING."*The Cleveland Plain DealerSusan Linwood and David Clark are strangers before being asked to serve in the name of justice. Yet as prosecutor Dan Mahoney presents the drug-conspiracy case, they soon become completely absorbed with the proceedings--and increasingly with each other."IMPRESSIVE . . . [A] RICHLY NUANCED NOVEL."*Publishers WeeklyAs Mahoney struggles with facts that refuse to fit the crimes his superiors have told him to pursue, Linwood and Clark are launched onto a treacherous path to Hong Kong and China, to the edge of disaster *uncovering an ultimate truth with chilling, worldwide implications."ENGROSSING."*The Wall Street Journal
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Tim
Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child -- a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world -- he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.
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The Endearment
Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order-bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota. A kind and gentle man, Karl forgives Anna for her deceptions. But there was still one burning secret that she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love they had come to cherish.